Grade 3 Science Worksheets

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• Identify the main idea of an informational weather passage.
• Select supporting details that explain each passage's central message.
• Explain how thermometers, rain gauges, and wind vanes are used.+ Show more

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• Identify the main idea in an informational passage about butterflies.
• Select three supporting details that explain the passage's main idea.
• Distinguish key details from additional explanations and closing sentences.+ Show more

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• Identify the main idea in informational passages about plant growth.
• Select supporting details that explain how water affects plants.
• Compare plant characteristics under sunny and shaded conditions.+ Show more

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• Identify the main idea in informational passages about animal traits.
• Select supporting details about the effects of diet on animals.
• Explain how regular exercise can influence animal body condition.+ Show more

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• Identify the main idea in informational passages about animal groups.
• Select supporting details about herds, flocks, colonies, and packs.
• Distinguish a passage's central idea from additional information.+ Show more

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• Identify the main idea in passages about fossil evidence.
• Select supporting details about fossils and ancient habitats.
• Compare fossil collections from different locations.+ Show more

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• Identify the main idea in informational passages about desert survival.
• Select supporting details that explain how desert organisms survive.
• Explain how animal features help manage heat and blowing sand.+ Show more

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• Identify the main idea in informational text about inherited animal traits
• Select supporting details that explain similarities between animal parents and offspring
• Recognize examples of inherited physical traits in animals+ Show more

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• Identify the main idea in passages about rainy-weather pictographs
• Select supporting details about recorded rainy days
• Explain how pictograph symbols and keys represent weather data+ Show more

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• Identify the main idea in an informational science passage.
• Locate supporting details about animal group behavior.
• Explain how warning calls help animals respond to danger.+ Show more

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• Identify the main idea in informational passages about weather and climate
• Select supporting details that explain a passage's main idea
• Distinguish daily weather conditions from long-term climate patterns+ Show more

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• Identify the main idea related to flowering plant life cycles
• Recognize supporting details about a flowering plant life cycle
• Distinguish central ideas from supporting scientific information+ Show more

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• Identify the main idea in informational passages about marine fossils.
• Select supporting details that explain evidence of ancient water habitats.
• Describe how marine fossils provide clues about past environments.+ Show more

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• Identify balanced forces in examples involving stationary objects.
• Explain how equal pushes in opposite directions affect motion.
• Distinguish a passage's main idea from other information.+ Show more

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• Identify the main idea in an informational passage about plant traits.
• Select supporting details about inherited flower colors and leaf shapes.
• Distinguish central ideas from other information in science text.+ Show more

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• Identify typical temperature and precipitation patterns in different world regions
• Compare climate characteristics of tropical, polar, desert, mountain, and coastal regions
• Distinguish climate patterns over many years from daily weather conditions+ Show more

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• Identify the main idea of a weather protection passage.
• Select supporting details from informational science text.
• Compare roof designs using water resistance and cost.+ Show more

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• Identify the main idea in informational passages about animal camouflage.
• Select supporting details that explain how animals blend into habitats.
• Distinguish central ideas from other information in a passage.+ Show more

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• Identify the main idea in a frog life cycle passage.
• Select supporting details that explain frog development.
• Distinguish key details from other information in a passage.+ Show more

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• Identify the main idea in an informational weather passage.
• Select supporting details that explain a passage's central message.
• Describe how a thermometer measures air temperature.+ Show more

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• Match food groups and nutrients to balanced plate examples
• Identify healthy habits that support growth, movement, and body needs
• Label a balanced plate with correct portions and food choices

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• Identify key human body parts and their jobs in simple terms
• Match body parts to functions shown in a labeled diagram
• Answer questions about how systems work together in the body+ Show more

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• Identify solids, liquids, and gases from everyday examples
• Match each matter state to its properties
• Sort items by state of matter and label diagrams+ Show more

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• Identify solids, liquids, and gases from simple everyday examples
• Match each state of matter to its properties
• Sort objects by state and justify choices+ Show more

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• Identify evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection in the water cycle.
• Label a water cycle diagram with correct stage names.
• Explain the Sun’s role in moving water through the cycle.+ Show more

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• Identify the meaning of motion in everyday situations
• Explain how friction affects an object's movement
• Find everyday examples of friction and match them to outcomes

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• Understand how organisms interact and cooperate for survival.
• Identify examples of group behaviors like fighting for resources and defending against predators.
• Explain how sharing resources and cooperation increase survival chances.+ Show more

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• Differentiate between weather and climate using appropriate time scales.
• Identify examples of weather events versus long-term climate patterns.
• Explain why a single day or storm does not automatically change a region’s climate.

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• Identify the main stages of a flowering plant’s life cycle from seed to new seeds.
• Explain how germination, growth, and reproduction help plants continue their species.
• Describe how plant structures (roots, leaves, stems, flowers, fruit, seeds) support survival in a local environment.

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• Explain how groups of organisms can increase survival through shared defense, foraging, or care of young.
• Describe how competition for limited resources affects which traits help a population survive.
• Use observable traits and ecological context to support a claim about group survival.

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• Explain how group living can help animals survive using observable traits and ecological context.
• Describe how organisms in a group may share resources such as food, shelter, or protection.
• Use evidence-based reasoning to support claims about cooperation and competition in nature.+ Show more

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• Identify the main idea of a science passage about group survival.
• Find key details that explain how groups help organisms survive.
• Use evidence from the passage to answer questions about traits and resources.

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• Explain what unbalanced forces are and how they change an object’s motion
• Identify how pushes and pulls in opposite directions affect speed and direction
• Use evidence from simple examples to describe cause and effect in motion

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• Explain how adding forces (net force) affects an object's motion.
• Determine whether opposite forces cancel or add by comparing their directions and strengths.
• Use everyday examples (pushes, tug-of-war, stacked pushes) to predict motion changes.

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• Identify the desired function of a design problem.
• Name measurable success measures for a design.
• Recognize constraints that can limit a solution.

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• Explain how climate differs from weather and how climate is described over long time spans.
• Identify typical temperature and precipitation patterns in regional climate descriptions.
• Use regional climate ideas to predict how plants, animals, and people plan for usual conditions.

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• Define design criteria and constraints for a given engineering problem
• Identify desired function, measurable success measures, and limits in a design scenario
• Describe trade-offs between competing requirements when choosing a solution

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• Define design criteria and explain how they guide engineering decisions.
• Identify success measures and constraints in a design problem.
• Describe trade-offs when multiple requirements compete.

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• Identify and define design criteria and constraints for projects.
• Articulate measurable functions and success measures.
• Recognize limits such as material availability, cost, size, and time.+ Show more

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• Explain how animals in groups can find food more successfully than alone
• Describe examples of cooperative foraging using signals or coordinated movement
• Use scientific words such as forage, signal, and coordinated to answer questions+ Show more

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• Identify observable physical properties of matter such as color, shape, size, and texture
• Compare objects made from different materials using clear, reliable observations
• Explain how observations help scientists describe and classify materials without changing them+ Show more

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• Explain how balanced forces affect an object’s motion.
• Identify how unbalanced forces change motion by starting, stopping, or changing direction.
• Compare contact forces (like friction) with the effect of net force on motion.+ Show more

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• Explain how balanced forces help an object stay at rest.
• Describe what happens when unbalanced forces act on an object.
• Use force-and-motion ideas to interpret everyday situations.

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• Explain how balanced forces can keep an object’s motion the same
• Describe how unbalanced forces change an object’s motion
• Compare contact forces and the effect of net force on motion

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• Explain what a force is and that forces can act by touching or without touching.
• Identify how balanced forces keep an object’s motion the same.
• Describe how unbalanced forces change an object’s motion.

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• Explain how inherited traits help offspring resemble their parents within a species.
• Describe how inherited traits can show variation among offspring.
• Compare one visible trait across a family line and identify the pattern of resemblance.

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• Describe how life cycles progress through stages from early growth to adulthood
• Compare plant life cycles (seed-to-seed) with animal life cycles (youth stages and adult stages)
• Explain how different life cycle stages help organisms survive, grow, and reproduce

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• Explain how to compare two solutions using the same criteria and constraints.
• Identify observable evidence that shows which solution meets criteria better.
• Describe which features likely caused a solution to perform better or worse.+ Show more